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according to imdb trivia, there's a scene where reese witherspoon reads gone girl, so i google image searched "wild gone girl" to try to find a screencap so i could fact-check. did not realize that you could re-arrange those words to spell "girl(s) gone wild" until it was too late

Reese Witherspoon wears no makeup in Wild, the film adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's autobiographical book. The shiny-faced pixie of Sweet Home Alabama sheds her concealer and Upper East Side wardrobe, revealing the raw human underneath.

After years of bad choices, Cheryl decides to hike a thousand miles across the Pacific Crest Trail by herself as a means of breaking the pattern of sleazy adventures that comprise her daily life.

As the terrain becomes increasingly threatening, she reflects upon the events that led to her self-imposed exile. The images are discordant; mother dancing loosely in the kitchen; a hand unzipping a dress; a man's long-suffering glare over the steering wheel. Wisps of memory soon congeal to form a portrait of adolescent…

No time to write an extensive review tonight:/ but...Reasons this is a very good movie:

- It's a great example of a micro-level character study- Especially one dealing with ideas of decision making and grief- The "hobo life" scene (lol)- It quotes Flannery O'Connor- The strength of the parent-child relationship aspect- Fantastic editing- Soundtrack includes Box of Rain & Ripple by the Grateful Dead- And last, but not least, Witherspoon's performance

My guess is that Wild will never get the audience it deserves. Why? Because we've already seen Into the Wild and 127 hours and we might be tired of films about young folk who have the luxury of going on high risk adventures and end up paying the price. It is why I didn't pick Wild as a film I wanted to see at TIFF. I can't say for sure what changed my mind*, but I'm glad I did, because Wild is a much better film than those other two as far as I am concerned. Much better.

Yes, it involves a long hike. But the way Jean-Marc Vallée tells Cheryl Strayed's story is original and…

Absolutely loved this and was gripped all the way through. I really admired Reese as an actress for fighting with her production company to make this story into a film and re define her image with a more gritty dramatic performance. She really succeeded in this, which was a biography of Sheryl Strayed, a woman attempting to find her way back to herself after a traumatic past and series of mistakes by walking 1,000 miles for 3 months hiking a trail across America.

In telling this story Witherspoon really captured the struggles and loneliness that would be expected on a journey like this while a series of well placed flashbacks enabled the audience to empathise with her past and how…

this is an underappreciated film. wild makes such a good job portraying the difficulty of finding yourself again after meeting your griefing self.laura and reese deliver spectacular performances, just as the film demands.this film will always have a special place in my heart.

A deep and quite symbolic movie with a very good lead performance from Reece Witherspoon as Cheryl Strayed, whose surname is quite appropriate when you think about her dark and troubled past. The transitions and editing in general are impressive and help tell ‘Cheryl’s story, which in turn explains why she decides to hike for 3 months at this particular crossroads in her life. The content is slow in places, but I guess that should be expected in a film about one person trekking for over 1,000 miles.

Jean-Marc Vallee follows up the huge Oscar success of Dallas Buyers Club with another biopic, another one with odd editing rhythms, and a restless spirit at the heart of it, but I feel like here he’s been able to bring much more to proceedings than he did last year. I’d say that’s due in large part to Nick Hornby’s adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, that while certainly a little heavy on the voiceover narration for my liking, writes scenes strongly enough, and structures his writing in interesting enough fashion to take it far away from the entirely ordinary, and into far deeper terrain, character wise.